Win Wi-Fi: contest can get your school unwired

University Business, April, 2004

Does this sound familiar?

You want to be competitive and provide students and faculty with the latest in wireless technology, but your budget is stretched thinner than Callista Flockhart on the Atkins diet. The Higher Education Wireless Access Consortium (www.hewac.org) may be able to help. HEWAC, in conjunction and WiSE Technologies (www.wisezone.net) is sponsoring a contest in which 10 U.S. colleges will receive a grant of a campus wireless network with free equipment and installation. One of the 10 colleges will also win three years of free network management services and broadband connection.

"The ability to realize the full potential of wireless access is only reached when most of the campus is unwired," said Thomas Muleta, co-founder and chairman of HEWAC. "This ability should not be limited to just a few well-funded institutions of higher learning."

Schools with lots of laptop-toting students, but without the money for a total wireless network will benefit most ham the grant, says Muleta. Visit the HEWAC Web site for details.